Prevalence of norovirus among visitors from the United States to Mexico and Guatemala who experience traveler's diarrhea.

abstract：:Immune pressure on lentiviruses exerted by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) selects for virus CTL epitope mutations. Currently employed methods for monitoring emerging CTL epitope mutations rely on the labor-intensive and time-consuming techniques of virus population or clonal sequencing. Here we describe the development...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Peyerl FW,Barouch DH,Bazick HS,Manuel E,Letvin NL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of primary invasive cutaneous infections caused by the zoophilic dermatophytic species Microsporum canis are presented. The first case occurred in a liver transplant recipient who was receiving immunosuppressive therapy. Multiple erythematous papules were seen on both legs, and a biopsy revealed invasive fun...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： King D,Cheever LW,Hood A,Horn TD,Rinaldi MG,Merz WG

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiplexed biomarker bundle consisting of nine different inflammation markers was evaluated regarding their diagnostic and prognostic performances in 159 adult systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) patients enrolled at the emergency department. Fibronectin, interleukin-8 (IL-8), biotin, and neutrophil gela...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Reichsoellner M,Raggam RB,Wagner J,Krause R,Hoenigl M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By quantitative gas-liquid chromatography of glucose-containing blood cultures at the moment of first signs of growth, a presumptive diagnosis of anaerobic bacteremia could be made in 24 out of 26 cultures yielding obligate anaerobes upon subsequent culture. With Bacteroides sp. (20 strains isolated), elevated levels ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wüst J

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We enrolled 22 patients with gas-forming pyogenic liver abscess in a study to assess the mechanism of gas formation. Klebsiella pneumoniae was cultured from specimens from all patients. Gas and pus samples from abscesses revealed four major components: nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen; this implicates mi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lee HL,Lee HC,Guo HR,Ko WC,Chen KW

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative sequence analysis was performed upon Bacillus anthracis and its closest relatives, B. cereus and B. thuringiensis. Portions of rpoB DNA from 10 strains of B. anthracis, 16 of B. cereus, 10 of B. thuringiensis, 1 of B. mycoides, and 1 of B. megaterium were amplified and sequenced. The determined rpoB sequen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ko KS,Kim JM,Kim JW,Jung BY,Kim W,Kim IJ,Kook YH

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serological properties of six new pneumococcal capsular types are described. A table listing all 90 pneumococcal types and their cross-reactions is included. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Henrichsen J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR primers targeting loci in the current Burkholderia cepacia complex multilocus sequence typing scheme were redesigned to (i) more reliably amplify these loci from B. cepacia complex species, (ii) amplify these same loci from additional Burkholderia species, and (iii) enable the use of a single primer set per locus ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Spilker T,Baldwin A,Bumford A,Dowson CG,Mahenthiralingam E,LiPuma JJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-two normal human sera from healthy blood donors were tested by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in order to determine the amounts and avidities of immunoglobulins M and G antibodies to lipopolysaccharides of seven Fisher's immunotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and to exotoxin A. The patterns of specificity...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Grzybowski J,Trafny EA,Wrembel-Wargocka J,Patzer J,Dzierzanowska D,Zawistowska-Marciniak I,Kłos M

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The establishment of an optimal noninvasive method for diagnosing invasive aspergillosis (IA) is needed to improve the management of this life-threatening infection in patients with hematological disorders, and a number of noninvasive tests for IA that target different fungal components, including galactomannan, (1-->...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kawazu M,Kanda Y,Nannya Y,Aoki K,Kurokawa M,Chiba S,Motokura T,Hirai H,Ogawa S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiogram typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with selected antibiotics was evaluated as a primary epidemiological typing tool and compared with ribotyping. Antibiograms were derived with the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method by using erythromycin, clindamycin, cotrimoxazole, gentamicin, and ciprof...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Blanc DS,Lugeon C,Wenger A,Siegrist HH,Francioli P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulosimicrobium funkei is a rare, opportunistic pathogen. We describe a case of bacteremia and possibly prosthetic valve endocarditis by this organism in a nonimmunocompromised patient. Useful phenotypic tests for differentiating C. funkei from Cellulosimicrobium cellulans and Cellulosimicrobium terreum include mot...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Petkar H,Li A,Bunce N,Duffy K,Malnick H,Shah JJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a novel gelatin particle agglutination test (MLPA) for the serodiagnosis of leprosy; this test is especially useful for clinical practice and epidemiological surveys of leprosy in countries in which the disease is endemic. The antigen used in the test is the chemically synthesized trisaccharide moiety of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Izumi S,Fujiwara T,Ikeda M,Nishimura Y,Sugiyama K,Kawatsu K

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A singleplex PCR assay using a single primer pair targeting the putative sugar transporter gene was developed here to distinguish Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii, Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans, and Cryptococcus gattii according to the distinct size of the amplicon. The interspecies and intravarietal hybr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Feng X,Fu X,Ling B,Wang L,Liao W,Yao Z

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia pneumoniae has proved to be difficult to isolate and propagate in cell culture. We compared the growth of three strains of C. pneumoniae, TW-183 and two clinical isolates from Brooklyn, N.Y., in five cell lines, including HeLa 229, McCoy, HL, HEp-2, and HTED, an immortalized human tracheal cell line. HEp-2 w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Roblin PM,Dumornay W,Hammerschlag MR

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabies virus found worldwide and prevalent throughout the United States continues to be a public health concern. Direct-fluorescent antibody (DFA) detection remains the gold standard for rabies virus diagnostics. Assessing the utility of a high-throughput molecular platform such as the QIAsymphony SP/AS, in conjunctio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dupuis M,Brunt S,Appler K,Davis A,Rudd R

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of their biofilm-forming capacity, invasive Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates, which cause the majority of nosocomial catheter-related bloodstream infections (BSIs), are thought to be selected at the time of catheter insertion from a population of less virulent commensal strains. This fact allows the predict...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rohde H,Kalitzky M,Kröger N,Scherpe S,Horstkotte MA,Knobloch JK,Zander AR,Mack D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of Coccidioides thyroiditis in an HIV-infected patient with a history of recent Coccidioides pneumonia but with negative Coccidioides serology determined by enzyme immunoassay at presentation. Diagnosis of Coccidioides thyroiditis was made based on histopathologic examination and culture of thyroid ab...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jinno S,Chang S,Jacobs MR

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ewingella americana was isolated from two blood cultures from a 75-year-old male after cholecystectomy. The characteristics of this strain are compared with the reported biochemical characteristics of 44 American strains. Previously described infections and pseudoinfections with E. americana are reviewed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Devreese K,Claeys G,Verschraegen G

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterium with a spiral shape and bipolar, single, sheathed flagella was isolated from the livers of mice with active, chronic hepatitis. The bacteria also colonized the cecal and colonic mucosae of mice. The bacterium grew at 37 degrees C under microaerophilic and anaerobic conditions, rapidly hydrolyzed urea, was ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fox JG,Dewhirst FE,Tully JG,Paster BJ,Yan L,Taylor NS,Collins MJ Jr,Gorelick PL,Ward JM

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic Neisseria species N. meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae possess an outer membrane lipoprotein, designated Lip, which is present in all strains tested. The predicted protein sequence of Lip consists of a consensus AAEAP amino acid repeat. The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of using...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Trees DL,Schultz AJ,Knapp JS

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The moderately repetitive sequence Ca3 was used to fingerprint strains of Candida albicans isolated from vulvovaginal infections of 10 women and strains isolated from their male partners. The Dendron software package was then used to compare the DNA fingerprints of these strains with those of vaginal commensals from w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schmid J,Rotman M,Reed B,Pierson CL,Soll DR

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we evaluated the ability of three commercial methods, API 20A (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.), Minitek (BBL Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, Md.), and Anaerobe-Tek (Flow Laboratories, Inc., McLean, Va.), to accurately identify 165 recent clinical and 38 stock isolates of anaerobic bacteria withou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Appelbaum PC,Kaufmann CS,Keifer JC,Venbrux HJ

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1998, an outbreak of systemic infections caused by Bacillus cereus occurred in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the University Hospital Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Three neonates developed sepsis with positive blood cultures. One neonate died, and the other two neonates recovered. An environm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Van Der Zwet WC,Parlevliet GA,Savelkoul PH,Stoof J,Kaiser AM,Van Furth AM,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of herpes simplex virus in clinical specimens by the suspension-infection technique was compared with detection by conventional cell culture. The sensitivity and specificity of the suspension-infection technique compared with those of conventional culture were 95.9 to 98.2% and 97.5 to 100%, respectively, de...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Luker G,Chow C,Richards DF,Johnson FB

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A passive hemagglutination (PHA) assay for antibody to Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin is described which utilizes chromic chloride-treated ovine erythrocytes coated with purified toxin. PHA antitoxin titers correlated well with those obtained by a cytotoxicity neutralization assay (r = 0.91, P less than 0.001), where...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pollack M,Taylor NS

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:psaA is the gene encoding pneumococcal surface adhesin A (PsaA), a 37-kDa protein expressed on the surface of Streptococcus pneumoniae. PCR primers for psaA have been shown to amplify the target DNA sequence in all 90 serotypes of S. pneumoniae and in none of 67 heterologous pathogens and colonizing bacteria of the up...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Scott JA,Marston EL,Hall AJ,Marsh K

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is an important cause of community-acquired pneumonia. However, in this setting the diagnostic sensitivity of blood cultures is below 30%. Since during such infections changes in the amounts of S. pneumoniae may also occur in the upper respiratory tract, quantification of these bacteria in nas...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Greiner O,Day PJ,Bosshard PP,Imeri F,Altwegg M,Nadal D

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the serum immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibody response to Norwalk virus infection in human volunteers and compare it with previously described IgM and total antibody responses. Whereas specific IgA and IgM peak within 2 weeks after onset of symptoms, titers of total blocking antibody continue to rise, implying...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Erdman DD,Gary GW,Anderson LJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood culture contamination greatly affects clinical decisions. Hence, it is of interest to assess the influence of factors such as the volume of blood drawn and the site of blood draw on the rates of blood culture contamination. In a retrospective study, blood cultures from infants and children up to 18 years of age ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gonsalves WI,Cornish N,Moore M,Chen A,Varman M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00